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Thor@x Arrived Late and Tore Sentinel Completely Apart

Half the match belonged to takeiteasy; the second half became a relentless Thor@x takeover.

DM-Sentinel began without the eventual winner on the board, so the first five minutes looked like a completely different match. takeiteasy drew first blood after only 12 seconds, sending Jano to the first respawn with the Bio Rifle, and five seconds later sergey2203 answered with the same weapon against takeiteasy. The opening was messy: the match recorded three lead changes overall, Jano suffered two suicides, and after the 77-second mark there was a 74-second gap without a single kill. Even so, a favorite gradually emerged. takeiteasy kept collecting points mostly with the Bio Rifle and had nine on the board before Thor@x recorded anything. Then, at 304 seconds, the entire shape of the match changed.

Bio Rifle sets the rhythm, rockets keep Jano alive

takeiteasy opened his account at Jano's expense and quickly turned the Bio Rifle into his main tool. sergey2203 tied him at 1:1 in the 17th second, while Jano's own mistake at 29 seconds dropped him to minus one, but takeiteasy kept moving. At 61 seconds he removed sergey2203 for a 3:1 score, and after the longest lull of the night, 74 seconds without a kill, he hit Jano again at 151. Jano answered mainly with the Rocket Launcher: sergey2203 fell at 56, 166, 217 and 233 seconds, and the last of those shots pulled Jano level with sergey2203 on three points.

The duel between takeiteasy and sergey2203 stayed close into the fourth minute. sergey2203 reached five points by killing Jano at 246 seconds, but six seconds later takeiteasy erased him with the Bio Rifle and moved to six. More hits on Jano and CEU666 followed. At 288 seconds takeiteasy also struck Jano with the Bio Rifle from 38.9 meters, the longest kill of the match. When his kill on CEU666 at 294 seconds put him on nine points, nothing suggested that only ten seconds later his advantage would begin to disappear at a pace DM-Sentinel had not yet seen.

Thor@x enters at 1:9 and starts an avalanche

Thor@x scored his first kill at 304 seconds, and the victim was the leader himself, takeiteasy. sergey2203 came next, then Jano, then takeiteasy again: from 311 to 314 seconds Thor@x chained Shock Rifle and Shock Combo kills into a Double Kill and then a Multi Kill. Switching to the Rocket Launcher did not slow him down. From 325 through 344 seconds he removed Jano, takeiteasy, sergey2203, CEU666 and Jano again, adding another Double Kill and Multi Kill. A nine-point deficit had turned into an open fight in roughly forty seconds.

At 371 seconds Thor@x reached ten, but three seconds later takeiteasy stopped him with the Bio Rifle and the pair were level at 10:10. CEU666 and Jano then added to the chaos while takeiteasy still pushed his score to twelve. Thor@x tied it at 12:12 at 403 seconds and went to thirteen by killing sergey2203 at 409. Jano rocketed him down at 410, but in that same second Thor@x killed Jano with the Bio Rifle and moved to fourteen. Jano beat him once more at 421 seconds. It was the last kill Thor@x conceded in the entire match.

Sixteen unanswered kills on the home stretch

From 428 seconds onward the match became controlled demolition. Thor@x started with CEU666 and never died again: his longest spree reached sixteen kills and ended only because he hit the score limit, not because an opponent stopped him. takeiteasy still removed sergey2203 at 431 and killed Jano with the Flak Cannon at 447, but between those moments he lost a point to a Rocket Launcher suicide at 435. Thor@x meanwhile rotated between the Bio Rifle, Rocket Launcher and Shock Combo and climbed from fifteen to twenty without a break.

The seventh minute was the busiest with 12 kills; the sixth already had 9 and the eighth added 10, so the decisive phase was also the fastest part of the match. Thor@x was not merely scoring but repeatedly answering recent deaths: the computed data gives him ten revenge kills, the most of anyone. From 20:13 at 461 seconds, takeiteasy never scored again. Thor@x kept cutting through Jano and takeiteasy until 29:13, then took the thirtieth and final point exactly at 586 seconds by hitting Jano with the Rocket Launcher from 4.7 meters. This was no photo finish; it was a door being slammed after a very loud entrance.

Match moments

• takeiteasy drew first blood at 12 seconds with the Bio Rifle on Jano.
• After 77 seconds came the longest quiet stretch: 74 seconds without a kill.
• takeiteasy hit Jano from 38.9 meters at 288 seconds, the longest kill of the match.
• Thor@x did not score until 304 seconds, entering the race at 1:9 against takeiteasy.
• Thor@x tied the match at 12:12 at 403 seconds and moved ahead at 409.
• From 428 seconds Thor@x produced an unbeaten 16-kill spree all the way to 30 points.

The final 30:13 for Thor@x looks one-sided, yet the chronology tells a much stranger story. takeiteasy owned first blood, had nine points before Thor@x recorded a single kill, and also produced the longest shot of the match. Then came a second half in which Thor@x managed thirty kills in only 293 seconds of play, died just three times, and averaged 73 seconds of life between deaths. Nobody interrupted his final sixteen kills. DM-Sentinel therefore became a story about a lead that was genuine for a long time, but could not survive the winner's explosive pace and unusually broad weapon mix.